The best TV of 2018, the worst films, and more: The A.V. Club's best stories of the week

Here’s a compilation of our favorite features published this week. Be sure to follow along with our TV recaps and check out all our recent reviews.

Monday

• The best TV of 2018
  
• The best TV of 2018: The ballots
  
• What are you reading in December?
  
• Christmas carols might actually be good, says NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour
  

Tuesday

• The worst films of 2018
  
• Books, music, and a spooky movie for your kids’ holiday programming
  
• What’s missing from our list of 2018’s best TV?
  

Wednesday

• The worst things on the internet in 2018
  
• The best hip-hop albums of 2018
  
• Jamila Woods’ final performance of Heavn was one of 2018’s best live shows
  

Thursday

• The best things on the internet in 2018
  
• The ostentatious Gris has got one thing going for it: A damn fine double-jump
  
• Once Upon A Deadpool just might be a better way to rewatch Deadpool 2
  
• Paul Williams on the enduring magic and no-longer-lost music of Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas
  

Friday

• Marvel somehow got Captain America and his adventure-serial origin story just right
  
• Mail-order horror packages deliver dark magic to your doorstep (and date night)
  
• Batman, X-Men Red, and the superpower of empathy in Tom Taylor’s comics
  
• What great non-2018 book did you read this year?